Test_Lab_series
Test_Lab is a bi-monthly public event organized by V2_ that provides an informal setting for the presentation, demonstration, testing, and discussion of artistic research and development (aRt&D).
Although each edition has a specific theme, Test_Labs have a low entry threshold and are therefore always accessible for a wide audience of interested people. New developments in the field of artistic research and development (aRt&D) are demonstrated, tested, presented and discussed at the Test_Labs. The programs offer a broad context for new work and work in development, bringing together specialists from a wide range of scientific and artistic disciplines, young creators, students, and theorists in an informal setting. In each individual Test_Lab program, a different aRt&D subject is tackled through an individualistic, constantly changing, and informal format.
Because input and feedback from experts, colleagues and potential users/audience members is crucial in the development process of interactive art, audience participation is an important component of these programs. Thus Test_Lab offers participating artists, scientists, technicians, theorists and students a unique informal, art-oriented test environment (usually absent in the studio or laboratory), and the always-present hands-on elements mean no visitor leaves without trying, experiencing, making or testing something new. At Test_Lab, visitors thus often transform into participants, and participants into their own audience. In this playful manner, each edition of Test_Lab offers a glimpse behind the scenes of artistic research and development. Entry to Test_Labs is free.
Test_Lab: Tools for Propaganda
Experience how new media technologies direct, divert, distract and manipulate your gaze on the world.
Test_Lab: Intimate Interfaces
Create electronic circuitry on bare skin, enter a digital network by wearing a veil, see through clothing without X-Ray vision. Test and debate some truly new forms of techno-intimacy in this edition of Test_Lab!
Test_Lab: Summer Sessions
At the end of the summer of 2009, a new Test_Lab season started, with presentations of new works by artists-in-residence Melissa Coleman, Tarik Barri, and David de Buyser, developed during V2_'s Summer Sessions.
Test_Lab at Festival Ars Electronica
V2_ presented a special edition of Test_Lab: Summer Sessions at the Festival Ars Electronica 2009 in Linz. Respondent: David Stolarsky (Ars Electronica Futurelab), performance: Robot Cowboy (Dan Wilcox, Ars Electronica Futurelab).
Test_Lab: What Crisis?!
In this edition of Test_Lab, V2_ will create its own special think tank for young artists to address issues of a world in crisis with artistic reflection and creative vision, laying out a young generation’s artistic view on our current conditions ...
Test_Lab: Fashionable Technology
A Tweet shirt that twitters, a performance of The Perfect Human, a presentation of the Hugshirt, and a debate with experts in techno-ethics and wearable technology.
Test_Lab: Artistic Interfaces
In this edition of Test_Lab, the outcome of artistic experiments in (counter-) intuitive Artistic Interfaces will be elaborated upon by interaction designer and researcher Kristina Andersen, and exemplified through demonstrations of the ...
Test_Lab: Better Than Reality
Virtual Reality's esthetic possibilities have changed enormously during recent years. By demonstrating state-of-the-art AR and VR artworks and by discussing those in the light of the promises made by early VR visionaries, Test_Lab: Better than ...
Test_Lab: goes Noordkaap
V2_ and Noordkaap Foundation invite you to witness how artists, designers, and performers give their views on potential solutions for the Voorstraat Noord urban development case, by taking you on city walks, seducing you to play urban games, and ...
Test_Lab: Happiness
This Test_lab will showcase a selection of 2008's most outstanding graduation projects from some of the finest European art academies and universities. Together, the demonstrated works will broaden our horizons regarding a young generation's ...
Test_Lab: Topology
Topology is often mentioned as an ultimate example of the same subject being studied in parallel within various branches of science and art, each branch approaching the subject from its own background and with its own methodologies. Today, there are ...
Test_Lab: Multi_modal
Although technological innovation in art and media has greatly enhanced the ways in which artworks can stimulate our senses, this innovation predominantly concerns the same few sensory modalities, and only rarely aims at supporting the integration ...
Test_Lab: Live_Coding
Test_Lab: Live_Coding will feature debates and presentations on Live Coding, a networked code jamming performance, live coded music, introductions and hands-on experiences in Live Coding programming languages for code improvisation, and a live coded ...
Test_Lab: Audio_Objects
In Test_Lab: Audio_Objects, some of the most promising new physical audio interfaces will be demonstrated, tested, and discussed among experts and audience.
Test_Lab: PLAY!
Test_Lab: PLAY! will feature a selection of the best European electronic-art graduation projects of 2007. The pieces have been selected according to originality and quality, and especially the way they use the concept of play - that is, the ...
Test_Lab: Dancing Around Technology
Recent artistic Research and Design projects have been exploring the relation between humans and machines within the field of performing arts with very exciting results. Examples of such projects in development will be presented, demonstrated, and ...
Test_Lab: Fleshing Out
A two-day event about close-to-the-skin technology organized by V2_ and Virtueel Platform. Recent developments in science, including DNA and stem cell research, tissue culture, smart materials and wearable technology, have a growing impact on how we ...
Test_Lab: Immersive Mixed Reality Environments
Test_Lab: Immersive Mixed Reality Environments is the product of a unique collaboration between the Erasmus Medical Centre and V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media with the aim of opening the dialogue between scientists and artists that apply ...
Test_Lab: Implant
In this edition Workspace Unlimited will demonstrate IMPLANT, students from the HKU will use the audience as a test panel for their installations, and dj’s Siuli K.O., Basskowski, and Uberchica will each perform a set.
